Browse the Web Like a Genius with iCloud Tabs

Imagine that you're in a waiting room reading a long but compelling article on your iPhone. Your name is called for your appointment, so you put away your phone and resolve to finish the article on your iPad that evening. However, you discover later that your iPhone lost the Web page, and you forgot the address! With iCloud tabs, you will rarely, if ever, experience this frustration again. Timothy L. Warner shows you how to use iCloud-based browser tabs to master your online reading.

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On most nights I spend the final two hours before bedtime (a) watching an episode of one of my favorite television shows and (b) reading on my iPad in bed. How are these two activities linked? Here's a simple example: Let's say I'm watching Boardwalk Empire. While I have the episode's title in my head, I whip out my iPhone, open the Safari browser, and load up several tabs containing stuff like episode recaps, reviews, and discussion forum posts.

Later, when I'm tucked into bed next to my dimmed bedside lamp, I open my iPad, launch Safari, and seamlessly load up the pages I stored on the iPhone. Ah, blessed convenience!

What is this "smoke and mirrors"? Am I a wizard? Hardly. I'm just using the nifty iCloud tabs feature that's part of iOS and OS X. Let me tell you all about it.

iCloud Tabs in a Nutshell

Tabbed browsers have been available for several years now. I love opening several Web pages in separate tabs because I can jump from topic to topic without losing my place.

In OS X Safari, simply right-click a hyperlink and select Open Link in New Tab from the shortcut menu, as shown in Figure 1.